双选择性信道下发射分集MISO OFDM系统基于BEM的低复杂度信道均衡

在高速移动环境下,无线信道会同时经历时间选择性和频率选择性衰落,即所谓的快速时变信道,也称之为双选择性信道。最初的发射分集Alamouti编码方案是针对时不变平坦信道提出的,不能直接应用于快速时变信道。此外,OFDM 系统在双选信道下遭受的载波间干扰(ICI)不可忽视。因此,发射分集MISO OFDM系统在双选择性信道下既节能又有效的信号恢复是有挑战的。本文基于双选择性信道的基扩展模型(BEM)表示,研究了一种有效的可动态分组的混合干扰消除(HIC)信道均衡方案。仿真结果表明,提出的方案,与传统的MMSE均衡相比,计算复杂度大大降低的同时性能显著提高,计算量的降低减少了能量消耗,达到节能的目的;与现有的关于发射分集的信道均衡方案相比,表现出性能和复杂度的较好折中;此外,在信道信息完美已知的假设下,随着移动速度的提高,误码性能没有损失。      

Time-varying Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection Using Superimposed Training in OFDM Systems

In mobile orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, time-varying channels result in severe intercarrier interference (ICI), and greatly degrade the system performance. So, it is necessary to estimate the accurate channel for equalization of received symbols. But, the conventional pilot-assisted channel estimation scheme consumes valuable bandwidth. In this paper, we adopt superimposed training approach for OFDM systems to estimate the time-varying channel, which is approximated by a basis expansion model (BEM). The proposed scheme is an extension of the superimposed training approach previously proposed for time-invariant channels in OFDM systems. At the same time, we employ an iterative best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) to minimize the mean square error (MSE) of the coefficient estimates and improve the system performance. Simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in fast time-varying scenario.

一种改进的快变信道展开模型

 在高速移动正交频分复用系统（OFDM）中,信道的快速变化引起载波间干扰,降低系统性能,且使信道的准确估计变得更为困难. 由于在接收端待估计的信道参数多于接收信号样点数,信道估计方程无确定解. 为了解决这一问题,通常将快变信道展开为基函数叠加的近似表达形式,信道估计问题变成对展开系数的估计,待估计的参数大大减少. 本文分析并比较了常用的基展开模型的特点,指出了它们的不足,并在此基础上提出一种改进的快变信道展开模型,该模型的核心思想是在过采样基础上通过基线补偿减小吉布斯效应的影响,从而减小展开误差. 该模型性能与信道的统计性质无关,且在展开基的变化赶不上实际信道变化速度时,展开误差不会明显增大,优于CE-BEM, GCE-BEM, KL-MEM等模型,可用于高速移动OFDM系统的快变信道估计.     

Orthogonal multiple access over time- and frequency-selective channels

Suppression of multiuser interference (MUI) and mitigation of time- and frequency-selective (doubly selective) channel effects constitute major challenges in the design of third-generation wireless mobile systems. Relying on a basis expansion model (BEM) for doubly selective channels, we develop a channel-independent block spreading scheme that preserves mutual orthogonality among single-cell users at the receiver. This alleviates the need for complex multiuser detection, and enables separation of the desired user by a simple code-matched channel-independent block despreading scheme that is maximum-likelihood (ML) optimal under the BEM plus white Gaussian noise assumption on the channel. In addition, each user achieves the maximum delay-Doppler diversity for Gaussian distributed BEM coefficients. Issues like links with existing multiuser transceivers, existence, user efficiency, special cases, backward compatibility with direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA), and error control coding, are briefly discussed.     

Adaptive interference suppression in multiuser wireless OFDMsystems using antenna arrays

This paper considers the problem of mitigating fading and interference in wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple access communication systems. Applications include cellular mobile radio, wireless local loop, and wireless local area networks. The effect of interchannel interference (ICI) arising from time-selective fading and frequency offsets and co-channel interference (CCI) is analyzed. A loop-timing method that enables a synchronous uplink between multiple mobile transceivers and a base-station is described. Adaptive antenna arrays are utilized at the base for uplink reception, and optimum array combining based on the maximum SINR criterion is used for each subchannel over slowly time-varying channels. For operation over fast time-varying channels, a novel two-stage adaptive array architecture that incorporates combined spatial diversity and constraint-based beamforming is presented. While ICI alone is most effectively overcome by spatial diversity, combined beamforming and diversity are most effective to combat CCI in the presence of fading. The overall method is suitable for real-time implementation and can be used in conjunction with traditional coding schemes to increase the link-margin     

MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道的稀疏自适应感知估计

在多输入多输出（MIMO）-正交频分复用（OFDM） 系统中,怎样在较高频谱利用率的情况下对快时变信道进行较为准确的估计是一个具有挑战性的课题。该文在利用压缩感知理论可提高系统频谱利用率的基础上,提出了一种适合于快时变环境下MIMO-OFDM 系统的稀疏自适应信道估计方法。该方法不再受到奈奎斯特采样频率条件约束,避免了传统导频辅助信道估计方法频谱利用率低的缺点。该文方法通过构建多天线群时频结构特征稀疏基,利用多天线间和群时变OFDM符号内信道冲激响应具有更强稀疏性的特点,对MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道进行稀疏变换。由于实际MIMO-OFDM快衰落信道往往处于频率选择性、时变性和多种干扰并存的复杂环境,受到干扰的信道参数对系统而言是未知,采用该方法克服了现有基于压缩感知理论的信道估计方法需要预先知道信道冲激响应稀疏度才能重构信道参数的不足,在信道稀疏度未知道的情况下,运用稀疏自适应的方法来对不同时频结构特征的信道参数进行估计。仿真结果表明所提估计方法具有对快时变信道参数估计的鲁棒性和较高频谱利用率,且均方误差小。      

基于时变衰落信道分解的OFDM信号接收技术

OFDM信号在时变衰落信道中传输时存在载波间干扰(ICI),降低了系统的性能。基于衰落信道的多普勒分解,OFDM信号在时变衰落信道中的传输可以等效成信息数据直接通过无衰落的离散白噪声滤波器模型信道传输,改进的Viterbi算法可用于接收这类信号。该接收技术可以有效去除传统的OFDM系统中的载波间干扰,消除误码的地板效应,提高了系统性能。     

利用ICI自消除改善OFDM系统时变信道估计与均衡的性能

正交频分复用(OFDM)系统受到时变信道的影响,产生载波间干扰(ICI),导致系统性能严重下降。消除ICI最有效的方法是频域均衡,但这需要准确的信道估计。基扩展模型(BEM)能够准确逼近时变信道,从而将对信道的估计转化为对少量模型参数的估计。然而,在使用导频符号对参数进行估计时,来自相邻非导频符号的ICI干扰,却严重影响了估计的准确性。为此,通过分析子载波所产生的ICI系数的变化特性,该文提出采用ICI自消除方法来减小参数估计中所存在的ICI项,以提高估计的准确性,从而改善时变信道估计与均衡的性能。仿真结果验证了该方法的有效性,相比单纯基于BEM的信道估计方法,能够得到更准确的时变信道,以及更好的ICI消除效果。     

Iterative Decomposed OFDM Channel Estimation Algorithm Over Highly Mobile Channels

In orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems, the temporal channel gains to estimate are much more than the observable data over highly mobile channels. The basis expansion model (BEM) has been employed to reduce the number of these channel parameters. In the absence of channel statistics, generalized complex-exponential BEM (GCE-BEM) is popular for its fast algebra operation and easy generation of basis matrix. However, there is still much potential for performance improvement by modeling error reduction. In this paper, the factors affecting the modeling error are analyzed and an iterative decomposed estimation algorithm is proposed to improve the modeling accuracy. The proposed algorithm decomposes each tap into the linear part and the non-linear part. The linear part with two parameters (the middle value and the slope) is initialized by estimation in linearly time-varying channel models. And the non-linear part is addressed by the conventional least-squares (LS) method based on GCE-BEM and then the slopes of the linear part are updated for the next iteration by two distinct slope update methods. The simulations show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional estimation methods with significantly reduced modeling error under both high signal to noise ratio and Doppler shift conditions.     

Channel Modeling and Inter-Carrier Interference Analysis for V2V Communication Systems in Frequency-Dispersive Channels

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication has attracted much attention recently. In V2V communications mobility plays a major role in yielding frequency dispersion of the channels, and thus accurately modeling of Doppler effect becomes a challenging issue as the two fundamental assumptions of the Jack’s model may not be valid due to time-varying channel characteristics in V2V communication systems. In this paper, we present a practical model to characterize V2V communication channel and its corresponding Doppler spread spectrum is derived. In addition, we will study the impact of inter-carrier interference (ICI) generated in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based V2V communication system. Compared with the classical Jake’s channel model, our proposed new channel model is more accurate and fits in particular well for the performance assessment of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems.     

DFT-modulated filterbank transceivers for multipath fading channels

The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transceiver has enjoyed great success in many wideband communication systems. It has low complexity and robustness against multipath channels. It is also well-known that the OFDM transceiver has poor frequency characteristics. To get transceivers with better frequency characteristics, filterbank transceivers with overlapping-block transmission are often considered. However these transceivers in general suffer from severe intersymbol interference (ISI) and high complexity. Moreover costly channel dependent post processing techniques are often needed at the receiving end to mitigate ISI. We design discrete Fourier transform (DFT) modulated filterbank transceivers for multipath fading channels. The DFT modulated filterbanks are known to have the advantages of low design and implementation cost. Although the proposed transceiver belongs to the class of overlapping-block transmission, the only channel dependent part is a set of one-tap equalizers at the receiver, like the OFDM system. We show that for a fixed set of transmitting or receiving filters, the design problem of maximizing signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) can be formulated into an eigenvector problem. Experiments are carried out for transmission over random multipath channels, and the results show that satisfactory SIR performance can be obtained.     

OFDM联合信道估计与均衡技术研究

OFDM系统在时变信道中会受到子载波间干扰,单独进行信道估计和信号检测的策略对于提高接收机的抗干扰能力有限,将信道估计和信号检测统一考虑则可更有效地抵抗子载波间干扰。针对此问题,基于迭代SAGE算法提出了一种新的联合信道估计与符号检测算法,为了减低算法的复杂度,引入BEM信道建模方法。仿真评估了BEM算法的归一化均方误差性能,验证了BEM建模的有效性,显示该算法的误码率优于基于BEM算法的线性均衡检测算法和基于MMSE的干扰对消算法,而且该算法只通过少数几次迭代便可达到收敛域,较好地克服了子载波间干扰的问题。     

基于BEM的时变信道估计改进算法

针对参数未知、存在大多普勒频移的时变信道情况,介绍了与之相适应的BEM模型,分析了2种适用于估计BEM模型加权系数的算法,即LS算法和基于迭代的BLUE算法。LS算法简单快捷,其性能不如BLUE算法;BLUE算法因迭代初始值精度不高,在低信噪比时同样存在估计性能差的缺点。提出一种基于BEM模型的时变信道参数估计改进算法,将LS的估计结果作为BLUE的初始迭代值估计BEM模型系数,从而得到更精确的时变信道参数。在典型的时变信道下,以OFDM传输系统为例,对传统BLUE算法和改进后的BLUE算法进行了对比仿真分析。分析结果表明,在低信噪比条件下,相同迭代次数时,改进后的BLUE算法优于传统BLUE算法。     

Estimation of time-varying channels for pilot-assisted OFDM systems

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems encounter performance degradations because of the time-varying (TV) channels common in wireless environments. The channel variations within one OFDM symbol introduce intercarrier interference. In this case, the frequency domain channel matrix is no longer diagonal, hence the corresponding channel estimation is challenging. In this article, two novel TV channel estimation approaches are proposed for the pilot-assisted OFDM systems, where the channel is approximated by the high-order linear model or the piece-wise linear model in time domain. The least square estimation is derived for the two kinds of channel approximations. The simulation is performed based on realistic TV channels with a fairly high Doppler spread. The results show the significant decreasing of the estimation mean square error using the proposed approaches.     

Packet Design and Signal Processing for OFDM-Based Mobile Broadband Wireless Communication Systems

We consider improving the performance of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based mobile broadband wireless communication (MBWC) systems. We show that a recently approved packet-based MBWC standard can cause the resulting systems to suffer from severe performance degradations for time-varying channels due to the lack of a mechanism for tracking the time-varying channels needed for coherent detection. We consider both packet design and signal processing to deal with time-varying channels. For the packet design, we segment an entire packet into multiple subpackets—with each subpacket having zero tail bits to reset the convolutional channel encoder—so that the detection/decoding result of each subpacket can be used to update the channel response for this subpacket. For signal processing, we use weighted polynomial fitting and prediction at the receiver to improve the channel tracking accuracy. Simulation results show that the coherent detection based on our new scheme can significantly outperform the commonly suggested differential modulation/detection methods.     

快时变环境下 OFDM系统中的信道估计

在OFDM系统中,怎样对快时变信道进行较为准确的估计是一个具有挑战性的课题。该文在利用信道基扩展模型的基础上,提出了一种适合于快时变环境下OFDM系统的信道估计方法,并且依据使估计的均方误差最小的准则,推导了相应最优的导频序列,包括最优的导频取值和最优的导频分布。可以证明,最优的导频序列是由一些相邻的等间隔等能量的子序列构成,每个子序列的导频之间满足一定的相位关系。仿真结果表明了所提估计算法在快时变环境下的有效性和采用所推导的最优导频序列进行估计的优越性。     

Joint Time-Domain Tracking of Channel and Frequency Offsets for MIMO OFDM Systems

In this paper we address the problem of joint channel and frequency offset estimation and tracking in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) OFDM systems for mobile users. The proposed method stems from extended Kalman filtering and is suitable for time-frequency-space selective channels. Separate offset for each MIMO channel branch is considered because of the mobility and rich scattering. The channel taps and the frequency offsets are estimated in time-domain while the equalization is performed in frequency domain. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method tracks time-varying channels and frequency offsets with high fidelity. Realistic channel models are used in mobile scenarios. The proposed time-domain approach has improved performance and robustness in comparison to purely frequency domain processing. Computational complexity is lower as well.     

Space-frequency-Doppler coded OFDM over the time-varying Doppler fading channels

In this paper, space-frequency-Doppler coded OFDM (SFDO-OFDM) scheme over the time-varying Doppler fading channels via the time-frequency duality is proposed. Based on the basis expansion model (BEM) and the time-frequency duality, through the circulant matrix diagonalized processing, the nonlinear time-varying Doppler fading channel is dually converted to the virtual frequency-selective linear channels. With OFDM module, subgrouping the subcarriers in OFDM through the block matrix method and fatherly general complex orthogonal coding (GCOD) on each corresponding block subcarriers, SFDO-OFDM codes for the general multiple input multiple output (MIMO) is thus constructed. And concatenating it with the signal constellation precoding, full maximum diversity gains including the inherent Doppler fading are achieved. Theoretical analysis and corroborating simulation results demonstrate that, comparing with existing Doppler coding alternatives, the proposed scheme can effectively and robustly combat the Doppler fading with high bandwidth efficiency and even lower bit error ratio (BER).     

Statistical analysis of mobile radio reception: an extension of clarke?s model

Statistical analysis and modeling of wireless channels is essential to wireless communication systems. Clarke?s model [1] and the corresponding statistical analysis of mobile radio reception has been widely accepted in numerous wireless applications. Since the component phases in Clarke?s model are assumed to be constant in time, the well-known results of statistical analysis based on this model, such as the autocorrelation and Doppler power spectrum, are not appropriate to describe real wireless channels for which the random environments (radio propagation paths) are time-varying and accordingly for which the channel is non-constant in the absence of Doppler frequency shift. In this paper, we extend the traditional Clarke?s model incorporating the effect of fluctuations in the component phases, and perform the statistical analysis which results in a closed-form expression of the autocorrelation of the fading. The theoretical power spectral density function, which is the Fourier transform of the resultant autocorrelation of the fading, is shown to fit the practical measured spectra, which is in contrast to the traditional theoretical flat fading channel spectra (Jakes? spectrum in [2]). The proposed model and statistical results should have important implications for detailed spectral analysis and channel simulations for real wireless communications systems in random fluctuating electromagnetic propagation environments.     

Robust channel estimation for OFDM systems with rapid dispersivefading channels

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is a promising technique for achieving the high bit rates required for a wireless multimedia service. Without channel estimation and tracking, OFDM systems have to use differential phase-shift keying (DPSK), which has a 3-dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss compared with coherent phase-shift keying (PSK). To improve the performance of OFDM systems by using coherent PSK, we investigate robust channel estimation for OFDM systems. We derive a minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) channel estimator, which makes full use of the time- and frequency-domain correlations of the frequency response of time-varying dispersive fading channels. Since the channel statistics are usually unknown, we also analyze the mismatch of the estimator-to-channel statistics and propose a robust channel estimator that is insensitive to the channel statistics. The robust channel estimator can significantly improve the performance of OFDM systems in a rapid dispersive fading channel